Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de l'isle de Saint-Domingue, : avec des figures en taille-douce

Title Variants

Alternative: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de St. Domingue

By

Nicolson, pere.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

A Paris, Chez Gobreau, libraire, Quai des Augustins, à Saint Jean-Baptiste, M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]

Notes

Author given as "le P. Nicolson" in the Approbation on p. 374.

Added engraved title page reads: Essai sur l'histoire naturelle de St. Domingue.

Colophon reads: De l'Imprimerie d'Antoine Boudet, imprimeur du Roi.

Chapter VII, p. 365-371, includes information on Taino Indian fetishes, pottery and wood-carving; plates no. 9 and 10 give pictorial examples.

Text primarily in French with Latin botanical names.

Signatures: pi1 A-B ²A-Z 2A

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.

Sabin | 55259.

Pritzel | 6695.

Bissainthe, M. Dict. de bib. haïtienne, | 7087.

Brown, J.C. Cat., 1493-1800, | III:2284.

Subjects

Antiquities , Botany , Haiti , Hispaniola , Imprint 1776 , Indians of the West Indies , Natural history , Taino art , Taino Indians , Taino pottery , Taino sculpture , Taino wood-carving

Language

French

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.50267
LCCN: https://lccn.loc.gov/06005291
Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q51469768